In the Kingdom of Fiore, powerful wizards make their living by joining magical guilds and contracting out their services to become “wizards for hire.” Harnessing the forces of Dragon Fire, Ice, Weaponry, and the Zodiac, four young wizards of the infamous guild Fairy Tail team up to seek their fortunes. Growing stronger with every mission, they travel the countryside helping people and battling rival guilds, but with personalities as different as their magic skills, this team may end up doing more damage than good.
Sunny, a lowly circus clown, dreams of following in his father’s footsteps by perfecting the lethal Flying Dagger technique. That dream seemingly dies the night a group of bullies force Sunny into a mysterious cave where an abandoned military experiment turns them all into mutants! Suddenly bestowed with superhuman strength, Sunny finally has the power to master his father’s technique and defend the city against his fellow horribly disfigured mutants!
When a fight breaks out at Fumizuki Academy, nobody throws a single punch. Instead, the students utilize the school’s technology to summon Avatars, pint-sized stand-ins with battle powers based on academic ability. That “academic ability” part is bad news for Yoshii: he’s an idiot, stuck in lowly Class F with the slackers. If these misfits want to escape their dump of a classroom and earn some respect, they’ll have to fight their way up the ranks and take on Class A, the Academy’s brightest students. It’s going to be tough, that’s for sure, but once the underachievers of Class F get motivated, they don’t give up... and Yoshii can’t even spell surrender!
In Japanese folklore, the kappa are water goblins closely associated with a certain town in the country. Unfortunately, the area is also home to a militant splinter group of researchers dedicated to developing amphibious super soldiers based on the kappa of legends. When their experiments result in murders by some escapees, the appearance of an actual kappa, and the triggering of an atomic bomb, the consequences are of epic proportions. A monster arrives in the midst of the nuclear fallout and Japan’s defenses are helpless against it. Mankind’s only savior is an irradiated water goblin on a rampage with death in its eyes.
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In a town surrounded by quicksand, an outlaw from Vash the Stampede’s past has resurfaced after twenty years. His name is Gasback and he’s looking to cause a little trouble. It seems Gasback has a serious beef with the town’s mayor, who’s paying dozens of bounty hunters to protect his turf. One of those hired guns is a beautiful woman with a vendetta against Gasback. Will she get a shot at revenge? Maybe, if she can get through Gasback’s bodyguard, Wolfwood. So what’s Vash got to do with this mess? Nothing much - except for the fact that he personally set off the entire chain of events two decades ago!
It’s not about you. It’s about the guy sitting next to you. Combine This is Spinal Tap with Otaku no Video and you get this love letter to all anime fans that have ever attended a convention. Suzie Sweetrie talks her friends into attending Otakon, while their escapades are being recorded by documentarian Marty Cinemacher. This fan film spoofs all different kinds of fans and features fake commercials, fake interviews, music-video style bits, really atrocious singing, and tons and tons of jokes. It’s anime; it has a lot of music; it’s done by an AMV creator (and 40 of his closest friends); and it’s all about anime fans. What more can you ask for, really?
The year is 2010. Shinichi (Sho Aikawa) is a second-rate third grade teacher who gets no respect from his family and little from his students. It seems that in 1978 he fell in love with a TV super hero named Zebraman that was cancelled shortly after airing. The show was set in 2010, so this year he sews himself a makeshift Zebraman costume and slinks around the city at night. His harmless escapism becomes reality when he runs into a half-crab, half-man enemy of the same TV show and begins to realize the stories of Zebraman and his strange alien enemies were actually prophecies and that by making his Zebraman suit he elected himself to fulfill those prophecies. Now he must be the superhero of his fantasies or let the earth fall to cute little green aliens bent on conquering our green world.
The future of anime is about to be rewritten. And censored. And edited. In the not-so-distant future anime, fandom is everywhere and everyone is an otaku. However, all is not well in this fanboy paradise! The corporate giant Megatainment controls all anime in the US and horribly butchers classic shows to make a buck. A small group of fans has had enough and tries to take down the evil monopoly. What can possibly go wrong?
They’re called Needless—mutants who wield amazing powers such as super speed, the ability to change form, and some, like Blade, the power to “learn” other opponent’s powers. It’s Blade’s greatest ability, but is it powerful enough to overcome his weakness for cute young girls in revealing little skirts?
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The year is 2025. Tokyo has fallen and the world cries out for a hero. It cries for Zebraman. This striped crime fighter is the only hope for those who live in fear of the Zebra Queen, a hooved seductress out to conquer the world with the aid of her Miniskirt Zebra Police. The Queen has stolen Zebraman’s powers and instituted Zebra Time: ten horrifying minutes each day when murder is legal! Without his super strength, Zebraman is just a guy with a mane - a broken-down hero unable to stop the onslaught of evil. Before he can take a bite out of the bad guys, Zebraman must find the young girl who holds the secret to regaining his ass-kicking powers and prove, once and for all, that a hero never changes his stripes!
Under the tutelage of Master Roshi, Goku, Krillin, and Yamucha find themselves in the World Martial Arts tournament. Eventually, they will have to face the great Jackie Chun to come out on top. Little do our friends know that Jackie Chun is none other than Master Roshi himself. Have these students learned enough to defeat their own master?
Ritsuka’s innocent childhood days came to a bloody end when he lost the one person who understood him. His brother Seimei was always his guiding star; without him, Ritsuka was lost. The enigmatic Soubi appears to change all that. Soubi was once partners with Seimei, who sacrificed himself so Soubi could fight. Now Soubi has come to Ritsuka, looking for a new partner. Will Ritsuka find happiness chained to Soubi?
Enjoy 90 minutes of fun, random fan works celebrating Dragon Ball, including the latest episodes of the beloved DBZ Abridged from Team Four Star.
It sucks being dead. It sucks even more to be trapped in a surreal afterlife where you’re caught between the living and the dead, where a mysterious, violent Angel is trying to pull you over to... somewhere. What do you do? Well, if you’re this group of rough-and-tumble teens, you grab every weapon you can get your hands on and give Heaven hell!
The second season witnesses the emergence of Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the next potential unifier of the land. Unlike in actual history, he has no connection to Oda Nobunaga, whose retainers were almost entirely wiped out along with him by the end of the first season. Beyond this, any resemblance to actual history is coincidental; as they say, this is how it happened, not how it was recorded! Date Masamune and Sanada Yukimura are back! These two, along with all of Japan’s toughest warlords, are on the move again, leading massive armies against their rivals in a thrilling quest for total domination. Wielding insane weaponry and unleashing the elements to boost their already awesome power, these warrior generals roar into the fray atop turbo-charged stallions, slicing through the enemy with six blades at once. They brandish explosive shotguns and swing swords the size of men. They crush the opposition with rolling battle fortresses and incinerate their foes with solar death rays. Hordes of ninja assassins and samurai fight to vanquish every adversary in their sight. As loyalties crumble and new alliances are forged in the scorching heat of battle, heroes become conquerors and conquerors become legends. This is war!
Universal Century 0079: The rebel space colonies of the Principality of Zeon launch a war of independence against the Earth Federation, using humanoid fighting vehicles called mobile suits to overwhelm the Federation Forces and conquer half of Earth’s surface. Months later, the Federation has finally developed its own prototype mobile suits at a remote space colony. But when the colony suffers a Zeon surprise attack, these new weapons fall into the hands of a motley crew of civilians and cadets, and fate places a youth named Amuro Ray at the controls of the white mobile suit Gundam.
Qiaofei (Jay Chou) is a relic expert with a gritty past. When his mentor’s daughter is held hostage over a map with a deadly history, the rugged warrior whips into action! Chaos erupts as he swoops in to the rescue and scours the sands for legendary riches buried deep in China’s northwest desert. Chased down by the shadowy Sandstorm Legion and challenged by countless greedy, bloodthirsty foes, Qiaofei faces danger at every turn to find the tomb... but some treasures aren’t meant to be found.
Somewhere, deep underground in the tunnel near Mizunashi Station, a dark spirit yearns for revenge. One by one, people begin to disappear mysteriously, but nobody told Nana. She already thought her life was scary enough: her graduation is looming, her mother is in the hospital, and her sister Noriko is in constant need of attention. However, that’s just when her nightmare begins. When Noriko falls prey to the wicked tracks, the oncesimple train ride to her responsibilities becomes the most terrifying part of her day. Together with her friend Kanae, Nana must now take one more trip into the darkness and confront the sinister force haunting below the depths.
In a lonely corner of the world, on the edge of No Man’s Land, sits Clocktower Fortress. It is home to the 1121st Platoon of the Helvetian Army; their newest member is 15-year-old volunteer Kanata Sorami, who enlisted to learn how to play the bugle. When she was a child, Kanata was saved by a beautiful soldier and found inspiration in the clear, golden sound of her trumpet. From that day onward, Kanata decided music would be her life. As the other platoon members train her in how to be both a bugler and a soldier, Kanata’s enduring optimism will inspire them to look for happiness and beauty, even in a world haunted by war.
Takaya Genji (Oguri Shun) just transferred to Suzuran, a high school notorious for its gang violence. At Suzuran High, hallways are battle zones, bloody brawls are everyday occurrences, and student life is dominated by the political winds of the school’s many factions. Genji didn’t end up here by accident though. He’s here to do what even his yakuza father (Kishitani Goro) couldn’t accomplish years before: rule the school. Already stirring up a storm on the first day, Genji is determined to fight his way up the pecking order and unite the gangs. However, he won’t succeed if alpha crow Serizawa Tamao (Yamada Takayuki) has anything to say about it.
Great Teacher Onizuka is an ex-biker punk who’s taken on the formidable job of teaching high school. Lucky for him, street smarts and martial arts are just what the job needs. Like a cross between a thug and a walking, talking after school special, GTO will go to any length to help his kids. However, his career might be in jeopardy when he’s mistaken for a serial thief! It’s the first of GTO’s live action franchises.
“Never lose that strength or nobility, even when you grow up.” When Utena was just a child, she found salvation in those words. They were the words of a prince, who wrapped her in his rose-scented embrace and bestowed upon her both a ring and the promise that it would lead her to him again. She never forgot the encounter. In fact, she was so impressed that she aspired to be like the prince and also help those in need. Now a spirited teenager, Utena attends the prestigious Ohtori Academy; however, her strong sense of chivalry soon places her at odds with the school’s student council and thrusts her into a series of mysterious and dangerous duels against its members.
Daniel Holder is a grieving father struggling to come to terms with the sudden loss of his estranged son, Mickey. Driven by a desperate desire to hold on to what little remains of his son, Daniel travels into the heart of a culture he does not understand on a mission to collect a series of paintings left behind by Mickey. His journey—fueled by bitterness and regret—quickly uncovers shocking truths that bring an already-broken man to his knees. Will Daniel succumb to the hatred that has poisoned his heart or will he embrace the spirit of Mickey’s existence and forgive the unforgivable?
One Christmas Eve, Hiro Hirono helps Miyako, the victim of a purse snatching, and discovers that she goes to the same school he does. To the dismay of his childhood friend Kei, Hiro starts hanging out with Miyako. However, Kei isn’t about to let a new girl in Hiro’s life take him away from her, and sets out to prove that she’s the only one for him. When Renji Asou meets Chihiro Shindou at an abandoned train station, he doesn’t notice anything unusual at first; he soon discovers that she suffers from a rare form of amnesia and can only remember things for thirteen hours. Chihiro dreams of writing a novel, but her amnesia has made it an impossible task. Renji is determined to help her fulfill her dream.
In food and in life, one must taste what is bitter to appreciate what is sweet...
Troubled by memories of the past that continue to invade his dreams of the present, Keiichiro Tachibana stuns everyone who knows him by abruptly quitting his ordinary office job to open a bakery. He envisions a predominantly feminine clientele and a wait staff of cute girls, but instead, his employees include a playboy patissier who’s been fired from every job he’s ever had, an ex-boxer with an insatiable sweet tooth, and an absent-minded childhood friend and old family servant. Can this unlikely quartet overcome personal tragedies, learn to work together, and discover a recipe for culinary success?
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Scaling the sixty treacherous floors of the Tower of Druaga is no game. Infested with slimes, dragons, and tentacled beasts, very few survive its twisting corridors and lethal traps. Those who reach the top must face Druaga, the demon protecting the mysterious, treasured Blue Crystal Rod. It is a grueling campaign undertaken by only the bravest swordsmen and wisest sorcerers... and Jil. A young Guardian with little experience, Jil raises his shield to play the role of hero, battling his way up to the level where Druaga waits.
